Bores You Quotes

• A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

  Oscar Wilde

  Boredom, Solitude, Novelists

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• Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Listening To Others, Effective Listening, Boredom

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 37

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• When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Boredom, Bored

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Roots, Evil, Boredom

  "Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard, ‎Howard Vincent Hong, ‎Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, Vol. 1, (p. 286), 2013.

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• I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

  Louis C. K.

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

  Dylan Moran

  Trying Different Things, Boredom, Insanity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

  Bert Leston Taylor

  Men, Boredom, Asks

  The So-Called Human Race (1922) p. 163

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• The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

  Nancy Astor

  Success, Women, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

  Billy Graham

  Boredom, Done, Laziness

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• The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Boredom, Bored

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.935, Delphi Classics

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• There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Inspirational, Sad, Depression

  "Finding Viggo" by Alex Kuczynski, Vanity Fair, January 1, 2004.

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• The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

  Charles Dickens

  Past, Dragons, Boredom

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• I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

  Louis C. K.

  Travel, Useless Things, Boredom

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• Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

  Lord Byron

  Two, Bored, Trying

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• The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wise, Fear, Boredom

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• My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Book, Humor

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.76, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

  Erich Fromm

  Blessing, Boredom, Would Be

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Dogma of Christ: and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture”, p.104, Open Road Media

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• History is the same thing over and over again.

  Woody Allen

  Fitness Motivational, Temporary Insanity, Boredom

  "Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

  Andre Gide

  Annoyed, Literature, Want

  The journals, 1889-1949. Vol 2. (p. 20), 1956.

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• Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Work, Blessing, Boredom

  Michael Davie (ed.) Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) "Irregular Notes 1960-65," 26 Mar. 1962

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• Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

  William Ralph Inge

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

  William Ralph Inge (1939). “Our present discontents”

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• What is a bore? Maxwell definition: a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. How do you spot one? Bores are always anxious to be seen talking to you.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Talking, Giving, Vacuums

  "How to Do It; Or, The Lively Art of Entertaining".

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• I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Boredom, Principles

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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